- National Integration Regional Food System (NIRF) | MIT Collaborative Initiatives
- Modeling Production, Processing and Distribution Infrastructure for a Resilient Regional Food System | 2011 | Urban Design Lab, Earth Institute, Columbia University
- Sonoma County Community Food Assessment | July 2011 | Food System Alliance, Sonoma County
- Multnomah Food Action Plan | Dec 2010 | Multnomah County Office of Sustainability
- Goals: local, healthy, equitable and regionally prosperous food system
- Measures: USDA hunger ranking, emergency food box access, consumption of locally grown food, obesity %, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, child receipt of SNAP assistance, avg. age of farmer
- Strengths: framed the issues, set actionable goals
- Criticisms: too many goals, no one is accountable, environment?
- Assessing the San Diego County Food System: Indicators for a More Food Secure Future | Dec 2010 | San Diego Food System Working Group
- Goals: 1) "Better Health and Well-bing of San Diego County Residents," 2) "Agricultural Stewardship of San Diego County's Environmental Resource Base," 3) "Thriving Communities and Sustainable Economic Growth."
- Stems from involved processes, rather present info then get feedback
- Exploring Food Security in the Islands Trust Area | Nov 2010 | Kaitlin Kazmierowski, Island Planner
- Thoroughly qualifies definitions and broadly gathers information about food system
- p. 7
- p.17
- p 29-31 attempts to list all food initiatives
- Layout potential policies
- A *FEAST* Planning Manual: Community Foods Organizing | Oregon Food Bank
- Goal: To help plan community organizing events
- Activities are already being held in Hawaii through foods like SlowFood, Food Bank Hawaii, etc. (collect list)
Hawaii
- Diversified, Localized and Sustainable Agriculture on Kauaʻi | Sept 2010 | Malama Kauaʻi
(p. 17, pp 29-31, pp. 45-49 - as numbered on the bottom of the pages). Check out the sample food charters in Appendix E
- Assessing opportunities and Addressing barriers
- explains benefits of diverse, sustainable and localized ... how to encourage it
- Goals: identify farmers' barriers, resilient island
- Long living document that could be translated into website
- Also highlights opportunities
- Strengths: Lots of natural resource justification ("agriculture can be ecologically destructive or regenerative, ...)
- Asks what we value...
- Island of Hawaii Whole System Project, Phase I Report | Mar 2007 | Rocky Mountain Institute
- Goals: reduce dependence on food imports, impact locally produced food's market share on the largest possible scale, be profitable, increase farmer profit, complement other ideas, have more than one positive impact, have meaningful impact of food behavior
- Benefit from tourism, but serve local community at reasonable prices ("Mitigating Unintended Consequences")
- Whole System Diagram (Section IV)
- Strengths: identified barriers, highlighted leverage points & opportunities, used many examples, quantified local market share of specific fruits & vegetables
- Criticism: wants to mesh with other ideas, but solely to improve local market share (what about health, jobs, improved infrastructure/environment);
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY FOOD COUNCIL CAN...
- map and publicize:
- local food and agricultural resources and
- systems
- persuade government agencies to:
- purchase from local farmers and to
- invest in protecting agricultural lands
- organizing networks
of:
- community gardens,
- agricultural parks, and
- farmers' markets
